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...crisp day at the Yale Bowl the following weekend, the spent gridders dropped a 17-6 decision in The Game...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing the Multiflex Blues | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian maiden for a heroine, if such a thing can be imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Once Upon a Time in America | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

With 18 minutes remaining in the first half, Rob Leavitt outran everyone after crisp passing by Gibbs and LaRaja faked out the Babson defense...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Hot Ruggers Shag Shabby Babson, 31-6; Crimson Still Undefeated in N.E. Union | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...alone, his left eye red and swollen from surgery. White-haired Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, the alleged Lucchese family chief, is casual in a cardigan and sport shirt. Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, is the balding, baggy-eyed showman of the trio. Elegant in a black pinstripe suit, a crisp white shirt and red tie, the accused Colombo crime boss is acting as his own attorney. "By now I guess you all know my name is Carmine Persico and I'm not a lawyer, I'm a defendant," he humbly told the jury in a thick Brooklyn accent. "Bear with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...show business and in chic society, dinner guests were offered crisp white lines of cocaine along with their demitasse. Cute silver spoons began to adorn the jewelry of hip, rich women. Coke became a workplace pick-me-up, like coffee, only perkier. Says Dr. Wesley Westman, chief of the alcohol- and drug- dependency center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Miami: "Cocaine is the drug of choice by people who are into the American dream -- I love my job, I am successful, except that they don't and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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